Roles
With Brian E. Kamoie
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1994
Department
Political Science
Abstract
Deathright offers the first comprehensive survey of right-to-die issues, potential policy resolutions, judicial decisions, and legislative activity throughout the fifty states. Covering everything from pet cemeteries to holistic hospices, the denial of death to death watches, and near-death experiences to the living death of persistent vegetative states, James Hoefler and Brian Kamoie provide a balanced and readable account of the current right-to-die landscape. With a minimum of technical jargon and an emphasis on facts, figures, and engaging case studies--including the stories of Karen Ann Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, and Jack Kevorkian--the authors clearly demonstrate the emerging challenges raised by our constitutionally protected and statutorily regulated deathright. Appropriate for health-care professionals, public policy students, medical ethicists, and anyone who will confront questions about assisted suicide, euthanasia, informed consent, or medical self-determination, Deathright is a book for our time.
Recommended Citation
Hoefler, James M., with Brian E. Kamoie. Deathright: Culture, Medicine, Politics, and the Right to Die. Boulder: Westview, 1994.
Cover
Hoefler_Title-Page.pdf (1146 kB)
Title Page
Hoefler_Copyright.pdf (1286 kB)
Copyright
Hoefler_Dedication.pdf (1101 kB)
Dedication
Hoefler_Table-Of-Contents.pdf (3766 kB)
Table of Contents
Hoefler_Tables-And-Figures.pdf (1241 kB)
Tables and Figures
Hoefler_Preface.pdf (7703 kB)
Preface
Hoefler_Acknowledgments.pdf (2754 kB)
Acknowledgments
Hoefler_Ch1.pdf (29797 kB)
1. Policy Restraint and the Denial of Death
Hoefler_Ch2.pdf (34348 kB)
2. Policy Restraint and the Cultural Context of Death
Hoefler_Ch3.pdf (36892 kB)
3. Policy Activism and Medical Technology: Emergence of the Right-to-Die Scenario
Hoefler_Ch4.pdf (43433 kB)
4. Policy Activism and Medical Professionalism: The Doctor-Patient Disconnection
Hoefler_Ch5.pdf (46922 kB)
5. Social Activism and Health-Care Consumerism
Hoefler_Ch6.pdf (68659 kB)
6. Social Activism and the Happy-Death Movement
Hoefler_Ch7.pdf (30992 kB)
7. Policy Mediation in the State Courts: Consensus on the Cutting Edge
Hoefler_Ch8.pdf (55253 kB)
8. Policy Mediation and the State Legislatures: Common Ground, Divergence, and Liberal Trends
Hoefler_Ch9.pdf (12267 kB)
9. Policy Activism, Restraint, Mediation, and the Right to Die
Hoefler_Notes.pdf (33152 kB)
Notes
Hoefler_References.pdf (29071 kB)
References
Hoefler_About-Book-and-Authors.pdf (1388 kB)
About the Book and Authors
Hoefler_Index.pdf (24894 kB)
Index
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